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It’s the electoral mechanics, stupid! GOP must insist on a return to pre-2020 election system in competitive states or die
American Thinker ^ | 11/12/2022 | Jared Peterson

Posted on 11/12/2022 10:08:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind

It’s entirely possible that the Republicans will not win the House. If they do, it will be by a razor thin margin under circumstances that should have produced a blowout.

The main reason for this second in a row reversal of all historic electoral precedent is plain to anyone who wants to look and be honest:

Florida has an electoral law that most closely recreates the US election DAY mechanics of all time prior to 2020: No mass mailing of unrequested absentee ballots to all registered voters - only those registered voters requesting an absent ballot no later than 10 days before the election get one; and their ballot is counted only if received by a specific date. In Florida there was strict enforcement of date deadlines, and larger percentages of voters than elsewhere voted at the polls.

Ergo: in Florida there was fast counting and quick results; and much less time for shenanigans.

And a Republican blowout.

In Florida there was no collecting/harvesting of ballots. And - even more important - no voting by that substantial segment of the Democrat party base that’s too disorganized and generally out of it to either remember to go to the polls or to request an absentee ballot.

The mass mailing of millions of absentee ballots, coupled with lengthy return periods and allowed methods of return (e.g., unsupervised drop boxes) has, in a multitude of ways, expanded the Dem vote.

It may save them both the House and Senate this time.

This was foreseeable. In Florida it was fixed. What was wrong during the last two years with the rest of the Republican leadership?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; electionsystem; gopdoesntcare; rinoswillneverdoit; stolenelection; stopthesteal; voterfraud
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This election conclusively establishes that until the corrupt electoral mechanics established in 2020 in almost all competitive states are abolished, and something like Florida’s electoral laws put into place, Republicans will be laboring not merely against the entire corporate and tech media, but under vote mechanics that give the Dems: 1. every opportunity to engage in fraud; and 2. constitute a national remedial help plan for several million Democrat-inclined incompetents who, in the absence of these mechanics, would not vote at all.
1 posted on 11/12/2022 10:08:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I think we need to seriously adapt and then change the rules if we get elected.

Other than the courts, there is no way to change the rules unless we get power. Adapting is the only way at this time.


2 posted on 11/12/2022 10:12:33 PM PST by DMD13
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GOP must insist on a return to pre-2020 election system in competitive states or die …
Yup, they must, mustn’t they? But guess what happened over a half-century ago:
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

— Communist goal #15
The GOP establishment is in on it, Jared.
3 posted on 11/12/2022 10:13:04 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: DMD13
France, with a population of 67+ million, much bigger than any state in the American republic, votes via paper ballots tucked in paper envelopes. No absentee voting. No early voting. Election workers hand count the votes in a matter of hours and report out results.

We're still waiting for results from small states like Arizona, where, for example, the candidate seeking the governorship is the person in charge of the election, apparently to be trusted with votes tallied with machines that won't read ballots printed with exhausted toner cartridges.

We're a third world country, folks.
4 posted on 11/12/2022 10:15:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No one is talking about this ONE thing: there is no way the Democrats can yield power to conservatives.

They can’t. Too many laws have been broken. It’s now a game of survival. Kill or be killed.

The Dems are counting on the brainwashed youth and illegals to reach voting age.


5 posted on 11/12/2022 10:15:31 PM PST by Salvavida (“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s too late, what is done is done and cannot be undone.

In order to make those changes you must have the critical positions required to make them; in order to get those critical positions out of the hands of the Democrats, you first need to make the process changes. It’s a Catch-22. There’s no way around it.


6 posted on 11/12/2022 10:16:58 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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That’s the trick, just insist and if that doesn’t work just insist a little louder.


7 posted on 11/12/2022 10:22:03 PM PST by Doofer
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To: SeekAndFind

You’ve got to go back to 2018, the first steal of the House. The California Ballot Harvesting Bloodbath was the beginning of the end.
This Paul Revere arrived four years too late.


8 posted on 11/12/2022 10:22:32 PM PST by hardspunned (Trump or DeSantis, I don’t care as long as the nominee does not support provoking WWIII)
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To: DMD13

Adapt?
You mean cheat like dems?


9 posted on 11/12/2022 10:22:54 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: right way right
As I recall Reinhard Heydrich met a bad end.

10 posted on 11/12/2022 10:26:28 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: SeekAndFind

all those voting rules/laws were pioneered in CA which has perpetual one-party rule.

short of revolution, those rules won’t be changed in any blue state that has been able to win one-party majorities with from this point forward, unless dem voters turn them out in mass. hasn’t happened yet in ca. may be starting in ny.

the only way for the out party or group to win in safe-seat districts in those states will be to do vote harvesting and curing operations going forth, just as he dems have perfected doing, imo.


11 posted on 11/12/2022 10:32:25 PM PST by dadfly
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To: hardspunned

Yes, everyone should remember that…as we watch the same thing happen next this week.

The problem is nobody does remember it outside of this website.

Corruption is so deep and wide these days….nothing really stands out, people just except the new normal.

They deserve it…I don’t accept it.


12 posted on 11/12/2022 10:38:13 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Or else, you will be run by leftist Karens. And the camps will not be far behind.


13 posted on 11/12/2022 10:46:51 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: right way right

Honestly, I wouldn’t rule that out. Of course, we will never get away with it.


14 posted on 11/12/2022 11:17:54 PM PST by DMD13
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m sorry, but Republicans are stupid.

Not the constituents but the actual party member officials are freaking idiots.

Fetterman post stroke is 10 times sharper than any Republican official


15 posted on 11/12/2022 11:18:57 PM PST by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, if the GOP went out and canvassed neighborhoods, they could Russel up the votes. Why don’t we have souls to the polls? Educate nursing home people?

Stop talking about fraud. It’s not about voters, it’s about ballots. Any GOP “advisor” that doesn’t get that is a fool.

Stop being the stupid party.


16 posted on 11/12/2022 11:19:50 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: nutmeg

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17 posted on 11/12/2022 11:25:03 PM PST by nutmeg (Biden / Fetterman 2024 -- It's a no-brainer)
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To: NoLibZone

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Dems don’t get investigated at any level.

There is no fear of being caught.

No downside to lying or cheating.

Why the Republicans are content with the double standard is another problem.
When the Republicans had the House and Senate, they spect those two years investigating Trump, and trying to expand Investigations of Trump.


18 posted on 11/12/2022 11:27:55 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: NoLibZone

Perhaps, but I suspect, however, their animating force is more their terminal corruption and deceit (two things they have very much in common with their “Democrat friends across the aisle”).


19 posted on 11/12/2022 11:38:08 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are no more political solutions.


20 posted on 11/13/2022 12:14:51 AM PST by MachIV
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